Software is a collection of instructions that enable the user to interact with a computer, its hardware, or perform tasks. Basically, Software is a soul of a computer system. So what can we do with software? Well, the answer is we can do anything with the software. We just have to give the proper instruction for the work needs to be done. How does software relate to happiness? Everyone wants their life to be easier and every piece of software is to make life easier. When life gets easy you get happy.Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organized a BdOSN Career Talk with the title of A Journey Towards "Software" Happiness at 24th September 2017. Jhankal Mahbub moderated the seminar. The seminar was hosted by Daffodil International University and held at Auditorium 71. Jhankar Mahbub shared a lot of ways to get into programming and make themselves worthy of software engineer job.

Here's some instruction is given below: 1. You have to have a target plan. Where you want to see yourself after a specific time.2. You need to have various types of source for learning. Like you are reading a PDF but it's not too hard to get bored by doing the same thing for hours when you get bored you can also learn by watching videos.3. You have to hold yourself back when you are learning. When you are using Facebook or any kind of social network along with learning you can give your full concentration on learning.4. You have to control a limited amount of your learning. It can be one hour or two hours. That moment you shouldn't let technology or anything outside control you.5. Get help from the student who knows more than you. If they don't help you then do some work for them for growing the bonding between you and him.6. Create a GitHub account and upload all of your code on GitHub. Almost all the jobs available on the market require Job experience. You might not have job experience at first, but you have your GitHub for showing them that you can do the work.7. Last but not the least, You have to give yourself a prize for finishing a task.

Approximately 500 students attended the seminar. Munir Hasan, General Secretary of BdOSN and Syed Maruf Reza, Associate Professor and Head of Faculty of Business & Economics was also present at the seminar.Syed Maruf Reza said, "BdOSN is doing a fantastic working with organizing this type of seminar that inspires students to push their limits on learning."

Arduino is an open source electronics platform accompanied with a hardware and software to design, develop and test complex electronics prototypes and products. The hardware consists of a microcontroller with other electronic components which can be programmed using the software to do almost any task. A microprocessor, RAM and ROM and all the other elements need to run the system are embedded in an Arduino chip. College and university projects can be done by using Arduino easily. Therefore Arduino is very popular among students.

By the Initiative of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), Science Popularization Society, Bangladesh (SPSB) and MASLab Basic Arduino Workshop were organized in 2 different universities in Khulna. 22nd September in KUET and 23rd September on North Western University, Khulna. A total number of 78 participants participated in The workshops. There were taught Arduino pin configuration, microcontroller, Basic Electronics, controlling LED lights, use of digital pin, Pulse width modulation (PWI), temperature sensor, sonar sensor, servo motor, push button and potentiometer. 10 popular Arduino project was introduced to students. They were also introduced to Internet of Things (IoT). North Western University Vice-Chancellor Professor Tarapad Bhowmik, Registrar Shahidul Islam, Chief Professor of CSE and Professor Nowsher Ali Morol and many more were present at those workshops. Professor Tarapad Bhowmik at the workshop said: "The use of such technology is very important for the present generation because we have to keep pace with the world." He requested MASLab to expand this initiative.

In the end, 10 real life Arduino project was showed and explained how it works. There was a test before ending. Chief Mentor of IoT Fiesta Redwan Ferdous shared "We are trying to make Microcontroller more popular among students. Cause microcontroller is a great tool to work with then it's come to IoT."

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Arduino is a simple microcontroller board and open source development environment that allows you to make computers that drive both functional and creative projects alike. There's a vast community available for Arduino. Therefore information for Arduino is easy to get. Students are making a lot of new things with it to make life easier.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh (SPSB) and MASLab organized Basic Arduino Workshop to make it more popular with students at Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST). A total number of 85 students from MIST participated in the workshop.The workshop started at 9:30 AM and continued until 5 PM.

Brigadier General Zakir Hossain, Colonel Humayun Kabir, Head of CSE Department, MIST., Lieutenant Colonel Mahboob, Lieutenant Colonel Amir Hossain, Lieutenant Colonel S.M. Anisur Rahman, Major Nazrul Islam and Captain Rejwana Sultana was present at the Workshop. Munir Hasan, General Secretary of BdOSN and Momluk Sabir, CEO of Computer Services was also present at the workshop. Besides researching on robotics students used the Arduino development kit to solve small electronic problems. The students were taught hands-on how to use the Arduino to solve problems.There were taught Arduino pin configuration, microcontroller, Basic Electronics, controlling LED lights, use of digital pin, Pulse width modulation (PWI), temperature sensor, sonar sensor, servo motor, push button and potentiometer. 10 popular Arduino project was introduced to students. They were also introduced to the Internet of Things (IoT).

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